Questions tagged [sctp]

For questions about Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), where it is a transport-layer protocol, serving in a similar role to the popular protocols TCP and UDP. It is standardized by IETF in RFC 4960.

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Can SCTP bundle chunks from different streams

Can SCTP bundle chunks from different streams in a single packet or do the chunks have to be from the same stream?
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Which SCTP event should I expect if remote side changes IP?

We have code that should handle that the remote side of an SCTP connection changes its IP address, but we're unsure of what that would look like on a protocol level. What, if any, event would that ...
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Network fluctuation / delay monitoring between two nodes

Problem background: Our application communicates with multiple other nodes over SCTP. A few times in past issues were reported because of network fluctuation or too much delays that appeared for very ...
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Is application level re-transmission needed for TCP and SCTP

I am trying to develop a server-client paradigm based application suite. I am planning the app to work with both tcp and sctp protocol support. Now my question is if any of the TCP/SCTP packet is lost,...
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Does SCTP work over the Internet?

I am working on an application that would be able to take advantage of the multi-streaming features of SCTP. Does SCTP work across the Internet? Is it supported by ISP's routers and consumer routers ...